Richard Evans Schultes Research Award

DEADLINE, March 30th, 2019.

The Schultes Award was created in 2001 to honor the late Dr. Richard Evans Schultes. The award is to be presented annually to a graduate student who is a members of the Society, or a member who has received their degree within a year.

The Society for Economic Botany announces the offering of an annual student research award(s) of up to $2500. The award is intended to help defray the costs of field work on a topic related to economic botany. Competition is limited to graduate students who are members of the Society, or members who have received their degree within a year. Applicants will be judged by an ad-hoc committee of Society members and awards will be granted by June 30 each year. Recipients are expected to submit a manuscript based upon their proposed research for publication in Economic Botany.

Proposals should include: 1) An email message from your major advisor confirming current MS, PhD or Post-doc status. schultesaward@econbot.org *Additonal letters of recommendation are no longer accepted.*

Schultes Award Reporting Protocol Within nine months of receiving the award, the recipient will submit one to two page double-spaced narrative of their respective project that includes:

a) Title of project, year of grant, your name, affiliated organizations b) Contacts made (people & organizations) that were helpful c) Geographic and place names of research locations d) Description of vegetation and terrain e) Where the collections are / will be deposited f) Broader impacts / significance of research g) One or two photos

SCHULTES AWARD RECIPIENTS

2018Amanda Thiel, Washington State University, "Cultural Values and Ethnobotanical Knowledge among the Q’eqchi Maya in Guatemala." Alain Ngute, University of Dschang, West Cameron, "Beyond Timber the commercialization of edible caterpillars in Cameroon."

2017Ashley Glenn, University of Canterbury at Kent

2016 Michael Coe and Richard Tate, Research In-Progress

2015 Anne Lucy S. Virnig, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, "From molecular systems to human systems: An interdisciplinary approach to evaluating antioxidant activity and conservation in the neotropical blueberries." Research In-Progress

2014 Tegan McGillivray, University of Wisconsin-Madison, she did not supply a title for her project. Her request was for support to undertake field research at a series of comparable Bronze and Iron Age sites located along the Red River, Vietnam. Research In-Progress

2013 Lauren Moscoe, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) diversity and population structure in two communities in Cusco, Peru." Research In-Progress

2011 Paula Brown, University of British Columbia Okanagan, "Kava (Piper methysticum): A Traditional Crop in Modern Markets." Research In-Progress

2010 Sushma Shrestha, Miami University, "Global Localism at the Manaslu Conservation Area in the Eastern Himalayas, Nepal: Integrating ecological and ethnobotanical knowledge about forests for biodiversity conservation." Research In-Progress

2009 Ashley DuVal, Yale School of Forestry, "Domestication of Açaí in Home Gardens of the Amazon Estuary." Research In-Progress

2008 Lisa Mandle, University of Hawai`i at Manoa, "The Effects of Landscape Management and Harvesting Practices on Non-timber Forest Product Populations and Communities in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India." Research In-Progress

2006 Anthony Amend, University of Hawai`i at Manoa, "Harvesting Effects and Population Genetics of Tricholoma matsutake in Shangri-La, China." Report

2005Andrew S. Roberts, City University of New York, Institute of Economic Botany, New York Botanical Garden, "Fields in Transition, Livelihoods in Transition: agrodiversity and incremental change in smallholder managed landscapes in Cambodia." Research In-Progress

2004Heather McMillen, University of Hawai`i at Manoa, "Ethnoecology of Medicinal Plants in Tanzania." Report